Xin Xin (; 1 July 1990) is a female giant panda that lives in the Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City. Her mother is Tohui (died 16 November 1993) and her father is Chia Chia from the London Zoo (died in Mexico on 13 October 1991).Giant Pandas from the past, htmlplanet.com Xin Xin is the only giant panda in the world that does not belong to China. Xin Xin can be visited for free during normal Zoo hours.
Xin Xin is artificially inseminated annually with sperm from Chinese panda Ling-Ling as part of a continuing effort to breed pandas in Mexico.Mexico zoo anxiously tries breeding giant pandas, Utusan Express, 1 May 2003 Mexico's Chapultepec Zoo has had one of the most successful panda-breeding programs outside of China, with a total of eight giant pandas conceived in the zoo since the first pandas arrived in Mexico in 1975. This has been attributed by some to the Zoo's 7300 ft. altitude, similar to the pandas' native habitat in Sichuan, China.'Mission impossible' for Japan stud panda, CNN.com, 13 November 2001
See also List of giant pandas List of individual bears
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